At a Hindu Sammelan, Pragya Thakur, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, spread the conspiracy of “love jihad,” taunted Muslims over circumcision, demonised Muslims as “cow eaters,” used derogatory slurs including “kate fate,” accused Mamata Banerjee of harbouring Bangladeshis, portrayed Muslims as sexual deviants, targeted Muslim women and domestic workers as alleged Rohingya or Bangladeshi infiltrators, called for an economic boycott of Muslims, and falsely claimed Muslims contaminate food sold to Hindus.